which city for GTA 5?

yah there could be a governing aspect where u have to negotiate w/the gop and stuff and a crime spree aspect where u kill everyone - but the thing is no one can know yr the president so u wear a comedy mustache when committing crimes - of course the two worlds meet...

Back to Vice City, but this time I want rural Florida, the keys, and Cuba or something similar.

I don't particularly want it but maybe a Vegas one will be made.

i think it'll stay in the US, but somewhere more pulpy and vivid than lib city - so yeah, vice city maybe...

how about NOLA

NOLA would be amazing.

itd be cool to do a completely accurate recreation of a geographically small city

athens, ga

you play a member of an elephant 6 band

Machu Picchu

pattern dictates it should be a glorious revamp of vice city-

ps1 gta : liberty, vice city, san andreas
ps2 gta : liberty, vice city, san andreas
psp gta : liberty stories, vice stories
ps3 gta : liberty city, ??

^^^haha cozwn, i'd play that game!

(also do have the sinking feeling they will just go back to Vice City, but I'd much rather see another city. Even in another country besides the US, but it seems you need that vast multicultural criminal tension for it to work, so where else?)

gaza
darfur
kabul

beirut

wd play GTA: bogota

^^wd be lagos-level sick I think

I'd love to play an Al Capone starred GTA

it should prob just be the entire world - is everyone ready 4 dat

sounds like a great plot for a movie maybe from the directors of crank?

Hey, guys! Love this conversation.

I voted for Tokyo. With the lights and tall skyscrapers and dense population, you could have some very engaging gameplay. If the artists at Rockstar really branch out like they did in GTA: San Andreas, you could include Mt. Fuji, rural Shinto areas of gameplay, and even the military base at Okinawa. Plus, Japan in itself geographically most resembles a GTA "state". Just imagine plots involving North Korean kidnappers and side missions in pachinko parlours!

Yanks would have to get used to driving on the wrong side of the road, but who knows? Maybe even Godzilla or the Enola Gay could make an appearance in the end!

I wonder what they would call it though. GTA: Miyogi?

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From this list I'd definitely go with Tokyo

gta: robocop - u have to evade robocop (who is unkillable) whenever u get a star

i have a massive boner at the idea of gta: tokyo

i think rio would be dope

gta blame it on rio

i've never played this game but the latino element seems essential, so i voted for rio

plus rio is already actually like gta

however, it would be super badass to flip the script and pull a "snake eater" where you're in the jungles of colombia and have to steal jeeps and swamp boats

"however, it would be super badass to flip the script and pull a "snake eater" where you're in the jungles of colombia and have to steal jeeps and swamp boats" <-- idk that just sounds like far cry to me

I'd like to see them go back to the bigger three city idea, but yeah, time for some new cities. San Andreas style, but London / Paris / Berlin perhaps.

yeah I voted for Paris b/c I actually know it well, unlike NYC and Miami (never played SA). But from this thread I think a South American city would be badass. But pretty unlikely. I figure it'll be Vice City 2.

Yanks would have to get used to driving on the wrong side of the road, but who knows?

cmon nobody actually tries to drive properly in these games, do they?

Tokyo!

write in for jo'burg

from this list istanbul/lagos/rio/tokyo wd all rule

pyongyang o_O

eyo cozwn you never played mercenaries??

'what decade' is a more pressing question to me personally

guangdong

tulsa

what decade what city, goole?

70s new york wd be neat but maybe a bit trad by now

sf already done (although livberty city was too, i guess) glasgow???? come on. That other gta like game has already covered london. my bet: chicago

the thing about Chicago is that for people outside America there isn't really a definable image of Chicago. E.g. I could tell you literally nothing about Chicago whereas I could tell you all the boroughs of New York and their geographical placement as well as a number of landmarks without having ever been there.

the game is so tied to american gansta movie shit i dont think theyll ever take it abroad - if it took place in lagos or rio or wherever the culture just wouldnt be there

xpost. ike in GTA 4 going over whatever they called the Queensboro bridge in to Dukes and saying to myself, "hey, there's the Queensbridge Houses". Same thing wouldn't happen in a Chicago based game.

And yeah, it is tied to American gangsta movie shit, plus I think wherever it is would at least have to be anglophone, having it in Rio with all these dudes doing crap accents would be rough.

i miss the period detail of earlier GTAs - would love to see 70s/60s game, tho i guess that might turn off legion of teen GTAers...

gta: five points

i guess tho itd be weird to have it take place before autos

glasgow wd be tight but they'd have to artificially up the immigrant no.s

gta: deadwood

a whole bunch of 20s-50s gangsta games have been huge disappointments so maybe a GTA could do it right. 20s Chicago might work. "might feature rub-a-dub and flappers" etc

xp ok now that one i like

I'd be surprised if they didn't do London at some point

Currently replaying GTA: Vice City on my daughter's Switch and really enjoying it. Have little inclination to play the new game - let alone invest in the tech to play it, or find the time to scratch beyond the surface. I enjoyed GTAV as a video game - perhaps the last one I really sank time in, arriving just as my partner became pregnant and in the last gasp of my having spare time - but it was misogynist as fuck and really, really gross in places. The "satire" was often weak and dumb, beyond sophomoric. And replaying VC, a fair chunk of that is similarly simplistic and blunt. I guess these games hit different when you're almost 50, and have much more compelling things to spend your dwindling time on.

waiting patiently for the radio stations reveal

I've not played any of these but do have a copy of GTA5.

thinking on it now and the 2nd and 3rd rdr2 trailers that gave a glimpse into the story got me fuckin stoked, unlike this

rdr2 was basically a fantasy setting and that's a better concept for a video game IMO. how far off is crafting potions and armor from making 'dynamite arrows' or whatever. its not. not that 'crafting' is what i like, really, i think i'm just saying it heightens the artificiality of the experience in a way that suits the concept of a 'game' and in a way that fits with the world better. guessing the fiddly bullshit in this game, instead of crafting, will be like, keeping your engagement on 'dicktok' or something

maybe i just like cowboys

I think because it is about cowboys in a different era, there is an element of escapism to it, which is akin to fantasy. These games though are very much leaning to the trashiest contemporary aspects of our nation, so not escapism more ... hyperrealism?

and have much more compelling things to spend your dwindling time on

on reflection this reads more dismissive than I intended, tbh - I've definitely sunk hours into video games in recent years. but as global tetrahedron suggests, spending my one life on this planet "keeping your engagement on 'dicktok'" would feel like replicating in the virtual realm mistakes I'm trying not to make in the real world.

Really wanted to love RDR1, but found horses TOO SLOW. Really loved the mission where you pick flowers for a stranger's wife, though (the denouement was a bit of a shock though)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JtC5alJLLE
"If you can't afford it, that's OK, just go outside, the graphics are almost as good."

This is kinda nuts:

As part of its latest financial report, publisher Take-Two confirmed that GTA 5 has sold-in 215 million units, up from 210 in the last quarterly report. That'll include some physical stock being held by retailers that hasn't yet been sold through to consumers, but that's a pretty negligible caveat, especially considering that Take-Two reported another 5 million copies of GTA 5 sold every single quarter this year.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is also selling by the wagonload, with 4 million copies sold in the past three months. Citing venerable industry analyst group Circana, Take-Two says RDR2 is the "best-selling title of the past 7 years in the US based on dollar sales."

So GTAV has sold 215 million copies, and RDR2 has if not sold more then made more money than whatever GTAV has made (and counting).

Think about the clip between gta 3 / VC / San Andreas or even 4 and the expansions and compare it against the current bullshit

Well why would you rush to replace a product which is still selling 5m copies a quarter? That’s ~40 people a minute who are still only just getting around to playing GTAV for the first time in 2025.

They’re not saying RDR2 has made more money than GTAV, they’re just saying it’s made more money over the last seven years - ie if you discount the first five years of GTA’s sales.

Well why would you rush to replace a product which is still selling 5m copies a quarter? That’s ~40 people a minute who are still only just getting around to playing GTAV for the first time in 2025.

making a sequel with the same engine assets etc does seem like the way to go tho with how complex it is to make the big games these days itd still prob take many years maybe pushing back the next gen idk

Rockstar been sitting on they ass for 15 years. Fuck em

i would sit on my ass too

making a sequel with the same engine assets etc does seem like the way to go tho

Obviously they’ve got experience of that because it’s what they did with 3/VC/SA, but I’m guessing they found it wasn’t as lucrative as what they did with the V engine/assets - build a live service game on top of them and have that rake in cash for you between this and your next game.

unfortunately thats the dead end the industry has run into yeah. there can only be like a dozen mega-hit live service games at any given time but running one of them is so much more lucrative than making normal video games that execs are now just gambling away entire companies left and right to try to become one of them

the PS2 faster release cadence still exists in lower budget and indie stuff but the big companies are never going to go back to it

execs are now just gambling away entire companies left and right to try to become one of them

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sony situation is wild just lighting money on fire for games that either never come out or no one plays when they do

The pattern (not unique to Sony) is pretty funny. It's always something like: 1) game studio does well enough to get Sony's attention, 2) Sony buys game studio for hundreds of millions if not billions, 3) Sony directs or redirects studio team toward a new secret project, 4) years go by with no updates, 5) secret project gets cancelled, costing Sony and the studio many more millions, 6) Sony downsizes or disbands the studio. Bungie, Bend, Bluepoint, even Guerrilla, Santa Monica or Naughty Dog, they all seem at the least a little stifled by Sony. I guess the tradeoff is that in the case of a few of these, their games are so closely linked to Sony's identity and financial success that Sony can't help but throw money at them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnuipPQDd_w

TLDW Rockstar seem to be engaged in some union busting.